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| 1891 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Chile between supporters of a liberal president and a hostile congress | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Great Valparaiso Earthquake damages much of central Chile and is felt from Peru to Buenos Aires | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A Chilean poet, Ricardo Reyes, adopts the pen name Pablo Neruda | |
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| 1924 |
| | | 20-year-old Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes one of his best-known collections, Twenty Love Poems | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Pablo Neruda increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems, Residencia en la tierra ('Residence on earth') | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes his epic account of South America and its people, Canto general | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Salvador Allende, heading a Socialist and Marxist coalition, is elected president in Chile | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for Literature | |
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| 1973 |
| | | President Salvador Allende appoints Augusto Pinochet commander-in-chief of the Chilean army and brings him into the cabinet | |
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